Banking on the Body : : The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America / / Kara W. Swanson.
Scientific advances and economic forces have converged to create something unthinkable for much of human history: a robust market in human body products. Every year, countless Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for later use by strangers in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (343 p.) :; 10 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: Banking for Love and for Money
- 1 Bankable Bodies and the Professional Donor
- 2 Banks Th at Take Donations
- 3 Blood Battles in the Cold War
- 4 Market Backlash
- 5 Feminine Banks and the Milk of Human Kindness
- 6 Buying Dad from the Sperm Bank
- CONCLUSION: Beyond the Body Bank
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index